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"A rhythm beats nearly constantly throughout BLACK ORPHEUS, Marcel Camus’ 1959 arthouse hit. In this retelling of the Orpheus myth, the beat draws its characters along a cycle of life and death as it repeats a story with timeless resonance situated in a particular time and place. That place is Rio de Janeiro at the height of Carnival, specifically the favelas resting high above the hills and looking down on the modern steel city below.

It’s home to Breno Mello—the film’s modern Orpheus—an easygoing, guitar-strumming cable-car operator with a reputation as a ladies’ man. Nonetheless, he’s on the verge of marrying his assertive fiancée Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira). But the arrival of a woman named Eurydice (the stunning Marpessa Dawn) disrupts those wedding plans, even while a Carnival-goer costumed as Death himself threatens the modern-day Orpheus and Eurydice’s fated-to-be love....Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá supply the bossa nova that the film helped introduce to the rest of the globe. Rio supplies the scenery. Between them, Camus places a pulsing parade of abundant humanity enacting a pageant suspended somewhere between reality and myth."– A.V. Club

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